On 9 March 2008, the Maltese sat through the final count of the Malta 2008 general election, one of the most closely contested elections in the country’s political history. The voting itself had taken place on 8 March. Early celebrations from the Labour side on Sunday morning faded as it became clear that the narrow margin made it too early to call. After a long wait on Sunday, as the samples and first-count picture sharpened, the Nationalist Party’s win became clear. The fin

Introduction Malta’s post-independence economic history (1960s–1990s) is a remarkable case of successful structural transition in the...

With the outbreak of war and rising fears of subversion, British authorities invoked emergency legislation aimed at detaining individuals suspected of being disloyal, including politicians who sympathised with the Italian culture

Malta’s political map was long shaped by geography, with Labour dominating the dockyard communities in the South and the PN entrenched in the Church-backed villages of the North. Today, shifting demographics and new migration patterns are testing those old frontiers